necron2600 wrote:Could AmigaOS or MorphOS (runs on PPC macs) run on this?

Potentially in big-endian mode, but you'd still need to have platform support for what's on board, and I don't know if the motherboard supports anything but little-endian POWER8 (given that all the supported Linuces are all little-endian).

It's possible they could run in virtualization, though for me Mac OS X would be more useful, since in my case this unit is supposed to be a follow-on from my faithful Quad G5.

ClassicHasClass wrote:If the desire is a more modern POWER-based (or even just non-x86) workstation, then I think it does

bah ... KiCAD on it? It might make sense, but the reason I am supporting gEDA on linux/HPPA is the PCI bus! Where I can attach my PCI-FPGA boards as accelerators, testing a lot of DSP functionalities, and it makes sense since -1- a C3600 is not so expensive, -2- it's damn more productive than on a shitty PeeeeCeeee whose PCI's BIOS is so plenty loaded with legacy code (aiming for supporting hardware which was designed on XT machine ) that you go nuts when you have to put your hands on PCI at the low level.

HPPA don't have such a ridiculous legacy. So, I prefer them, and that is the specific reason I need to stay away from a PeeeeCeeee.

Now, I want a C3750 because it's faster and more stable than a C8K, especially for the PCI subsystem. But it's not strickly a need, it's more a desire, I mean the faster CPU (850MHz vs 550Mhz) takes almost the half of time when you have to compile things like gEDA. The cost is double: 800 euro asked for a C3750, while the C3600 was 300 euro.

btw, it's more a test banquet than a real workstation, I mean I wouldn't put 3K euro in a non-x86 machine since up to 90% of the software I need won't work on it. With 3K euro I bought a XEON machine, loaded with OrCAD, which is 40 light years ahead to KiCAD

Dual POWER9For all your EDA requirements

LOL, they say it on their page, but they miss on which software? And which is the final cost?!?

I was going to get one of the boards, but... because they're limited to POWER Linux with x.org, I'm going to have to pass. Until recently when I got to use Linux, I didn't realize what a steaming pile x.org is. In fact, Linux only works well (at least for me) at the console. Anything outside of that and I want to bang my head until my brains fall out.

AIX does not suffer from all of the issues present in x.org, so... it has to be AIX capable. :p

They don't come with it out of the box, but getting a compatible card is not hard. I have a 135P in my POWER6 and X comes up with that. I can't imagine that it wouldn't still work on a POWER8 or 9 or any of the other graphics card FRUs.

ClassicHasClass wrote:They don't come with it out of the box, but getting a compatible card is not hard. I have a 135P in my POWER6 and X comes up with that. I can't imagine that it wouldn't still work on a POWER8 or 9 or any of the other graphics card FRUs.

I'm assuming that the Talos will come with at least one legacy PCI slot.

Does any of you know of any GXT135p-compatible-or-equivalent card with PCI-Express interface?